Winding device for tops



Feb.1z, 1935. ,HQ vswMmT 1,991,122

Y WINDING DEVICE FOR TOPS Filed'OCt. 25, 1954 HHIHHHIHHHHHHH Inventor: 1

Patented Feb. i2, 1935' l l y l 1,991,122., j

N .UNITED'STATES 'PATENTLQFHCE 1,991,122 WINDI'NGDEVICE Fon TOPS Hermann Schmidt, Berlin-Reinickendorf-Ost,

Germany i Application October 25, 1934, Serial No. 749,969 In Germany March 21, 1931 2 Claims. (Cl. i6- 32) This invention relates to a top winding device For causing the top to spin the locking pin and differs from the known devices in this,`that is fixed behind the shoulder 13 and the U-shaped the winding device consists of two parts which structure 14, 15 is pushed downwardly. The holdare capable of turning about a common axis in ing part is then held firmly with the'left-hand 5 opposite directions, viz: an upper rotatable part and the rotary partis turned with the right 5 and a lower holding part. 'Through this division hand, until the spring is stressed. Ihe winding into two parts the disadvantages from which the up device is then placed on the top and lightly known devices serving the same purpose suiTer depressed, causing the pin 15 to engage the upper are done awaywith, which consisted in this, that, surface Aof the top yandto be slid upwards. At

l0 on the one hand the winding devices had to be the same time the pin 14 releases the Spring 11001! 10 pressed so rmly against the top that far `too 7; The latter thereupon engages in an opening in i much force had to be exerted, or that, on the the upper Surface 0f the tep and arrieS other hand, it was necessary for the top peg to the top round With it- After the Spring has be released at exactly the right moment, which eXpendedf the Spring hOOk 7 leaves the 'Open-` f 15 it was not easy to time. Furthermore, the release ing, the deviee iS raised and the tOp .Will Spin- 15 of the winding uplspring has hitherto been effect- For Causing the tOp t0 Spinv @OntinuOuSly the 'ed by pressing on the top peg or on a knob condevice with the spring stressed is placed, as already neeted tothe looking pin, but not so that the described, on the top, beine depressed with o device need only be placed on the top and lightly Short preSSure and raised agein- This aCtiOn pressed against it, in order to set the top in rotaeen be repeated `and the tOp thilS kept Spinning 20 tion. 'Ihis requirement is also fulfilled by the eS l0ng es deSiredi present invention thus enabling the top to spin If the top is to be used as a jumping tOp, the vfor a considerable time. locking pin 10 is moved by means of the sliding The invention is iuustrated diagrammaticaily member 11 into the operative position;` the device and by way ofexarnple in the drawing in vertical iS Wound 11p independently 0f the tOp, iS placed 25 section, 1 is the upper rotary part and 2 the 0n thelettter S0 that the lOCking pin 10 engages holding part disposed under it, In the axis 0f in it and the device is pressed lightly down on to both parts are disposed the tubes 3, l which are the tOpy thereby CenSing the Spring hOOk '7 t0 be fixed in the rotary part and on the bottom flanges released from the retaining pin 14 and to engage of which the holdingpart A2 rests lightly. Bein one of the openings inthe top. The hand 30 tween the two tubes is the helical spring 6 which l101ding the tOp iS tllen extended lind the Sliding is fixed at itsupper end `at 5 and terminates at member 1l pushed up by means of the foreneer,y the bottom, where it projects from the noIding causing the looking pin 10 to be disengaged, the i part, in the nook 7, being prevented by the flange spring hook of the expanding spring to carry the of the inner tubes fromioliing out. top round with it and the top to drop to the 35 The rotary part 1 is further provided with the grOund.

, spring loaded pin 8 which engages in arecess 9 of When the top iS being need eS e jumping tp, the holding part, while the holding part 2 is proy the Winding 11p device may be Wennd up by Slidvided i on one side with a spring loaded pin 10 ing up the pinS 14, 15y bringing the leeking pin`10 which can be xed in position behind a part 13 of into the operative positionand placing the whole 40 the bottom of the holding part by means of a of the winding up device on to the top and turnlateral projection 11 which slides in a slot 12. On ing it, when the spring hook 7 will engage in one the other side the holding part is provided with of the openings in the body of the top and the laterally spring loaded pins 14, 15 which are rigspring` will become stressed. In contradistinction idly connected in a U-shaped manner and of to the known constructions it is not necessary to 45 which the shorter pin 14 engages behind the hook press the body of the top against the winding up '7 0f the Winding 11p Spring, While the lengel pin device, as the lower flange of the inner tube 3 does 15 projects out of the bottom surface of the not allow the spring to come out. The top and `l101ding pert- A lateral prOJ'eCtiOn 16 0n the pin the winding up y device are then held in the eX- 15, which is slidable in the slot 17 enable the pins tended right hand and the sliding member 10 is 50 14, 15 Wliieh are preVented frOln nlOVing freely by brought into the position of rest, causing the top the spring which acts on them, to be adjusted to rotate and to fall down. according to requirement. what claim is;

The new device operates in the following man- 1. A winding device for tops comprising a holder ner: member and a rotary member rotatably mounted 55 on said holder member, a helical spring provided l with a hooked end adapted for engaging a top and disposed centrally through said members and xed at one end to the rotary member, means fory detachably securing the other end of said spring'to the holder member whereby the spring may be tensioned by rotating the rotary member in one direction With respect to the holder member, means disposed in said rotary member for preventing therelease of the spring and means disposed in 'said holder member actuated by placing the device on the top for releasing the spring and thereby effecting engagement of the said hooked end With the top whereby the top is set in motion.

2. A device as claimed in claim 1 comprising means for releasably securing the device to the top whereby the top may be released and spun from an elevated position.

HERMANN SCHMIDT. 

